Translation
to press, to squeeze
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Examples
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He shook my hand and smiled.
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She pressed the child to her chest.
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Press the button to open the door.
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The shoes are pinching my feet.
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The crowd pressed us against the wall.
The phrase to know is , which is how Esperanto shakes hands: you press it rather than shake it, and manpremo is the handshake itself. Otherwise is straightforwardly transitive and covers pressing, squeezing, hugging tight and pinching. The noun is pressure in both the physical and the political sense, is to oppress, literally to press down, and elpremi is to squeeze out. Keep it clear of , one letter away and meaning to take, a slip that produces some memorable sentences.
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Word family
Words built on premi with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- subpremiverb
to oppress, to suppress
subpremi
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 6, lesson 4: premi, dudek, dubi and 7 more words.